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03rd Jul 2017

ASOS praised for showing models with stretch marks

More of this please.

Cathy Donohue

YAS ASOS.

Photoshop has become all too common in the fashion industry with many retailers airbrushing images before using them.

That’s why ASOS has been commended for images on their website which show models with stretch marks.

This really shouldn’t be such a big deal because it should be the case for every fashion company but as we’ve mentioned, images are retouched all the time.

Twitter users have shared their love and appreciation for the online retailer’s latest decision and here’s hoping other companies follow suit.

It’s not just stretch marks either with someone commenting that one model’s faint acne scars could be seen. Acne is such a distressing condition and it’s so refreshing to see that this major company isn’t expressing any stigma towards it.

One person made the important point that this shows that everyone can get stretchmarks, regardless of your size, and again it’s fantastic to see this championed on such a massive platform.

Body positivity is a major topic of conversation and this decision is a major move in the right direction. We only wish that this didn’t have to be a decision and it was par for the course to include non-photoshopped images…